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Online-Ressource (225 p)
ISBN:
9781441132970
Content:
P.G. Maxwell-Stuart presents the history of alchemy traced from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science
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Cover; Half-title; Others; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 China: The Golden Road to Immortality; 2 India: The Way of Tantra and Mercury; 3 Roman Egypt: The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness; 4 The Islamic World: Balance and Magic Numbers; 5 Mediaeval Europe: Translations, Debates and Symbols; 6 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World; 7 The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath; 8 Theology Wearing a Mask of Science: The Later Seventeenth Century
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9 Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries10 A Child of Earlier Times: The Twentieth Century; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Plates 1; Plates 2; Plates 3; Plates 4; Plates 5; Plates 6; Plates 7 ; Plates 8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441188700
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441132970
Additional Edition:
Print version The Chemical Choir : A History of Alchemy
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English
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